Is Google Not Showing Fresh Content In Search Results Again?
Something is off with Google search this morning. It seems Google is not showing some fresh content in the search results. Site commands for this site and Wall Street Journal, as well as many other sites show little to zero new content in Google’s sea…
Google Tests Blue Snippet Headers
It looks like Google is testing blue snippet headers in the mobile results. I believe this is an ongoing limited test but I figured I’d share it. Here are screen shots from Valentin Pletzer on Twitter of this in action.
Bing Won’t Rule Out Meta Keywords Tag Forever
In 2011, Bing said they do use the meta keywords tag. In 2014, Bing said the meta keywords tag was “dead in terms of SEO value.” Now, Bing won’t say if it is being used or not being used now or in the future.
Google Can Use Historic Data For Ranking Your Site In Search
John Mueller of Google confirmed on Friday’s webmaster hangout video that Google does and can use historic or legacy data about your web site for ranking purposes. He gave a few examples of how Google uses it; your links over time, the adult SafeSearc…
Google: URL Parameters Tool Is Not A Replacement For Robots.txt
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that using the URL parameter tool is no replacement for using a robots.txt file for blocking content. John was asked “how reliable is it” when setting “crawl no urls” of a certain type of URL pattern. John said “…
Google Featured Snippet Local One Pack
Andy Simpson shared a screen shot on Twitter of a featured snippet on Google but is also mixed as a local one pack. The search query was [med mal lawyer washington dc] and this is what this featured snippet local one pack looks like.
Vlog #69: Sarah Teach – Heartfelt SEO & Conscious Capitalism in SEO
Sarah Teach is an SEO at The Motley Fool, she specifically works on the evergreen content at the publication. She has an interesting story…
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Shavous 5780
This is a programming note: I am currently offline today for the Jewish holiday of Shavout. Anything posted today, May 29, 2020, Friday, was scheduled and pre-written yesterday – on May 28, 2020.
Google’s John Mueller Posts Tidbits On Core Web Vitals
John Muller from Google posted a stream of tweets yesterday of tidbits he found interesting to share with the SEO community. He said “Since the Core Web Vitals are now in Search Console, I wanted to do a quick round-up of the tidbits I found while res…
Poll: 62% Say Google’s May 2020 Core Update Had A Negative Change In Search Quality
The other day I wrote a story asking if the Google May 2020 core update messed up Google’ search quality or not. I also posted a poll asking did Google’s May 2020 core update have a positive or negative impact of overall search quality? The poll clos…
Google Does Monitor Link Selling Forums & Facebook Groups
Gary Illyes from Google mocked that it does and can go to link selling forums and Facebook groups, even likely private ones, to uncover link networks. Although, it sounds like Google does not worry too much about these that much, as its algorithms ten…
Google Page Experience Update – Google’s Next Algorithm Update Coming Next Year
Google announced a new algorithm update that will be launching sometime in 2021. I covered it in detail in my story yesterday on Search Engine Land named the Google Page Experience Update. I personally would not go too insane about this update, it is …
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Page Experience Update, Core Update Poorer, Core Web Vitals & Much More
A quick heads up that I am offline for Shavous and this video was prerecorded yesterday and scheduled to go live today…
Google Local Ranking Volatility In Early May Was A Bug
Danny Sullivan of Google posted an update to the local volatility from late last month through early this month – saying it was a bug that was resolved about two weeks ago. The fix Google rolled out then he said “seems to have stabilized things since….
Google PageSpeed Insights Now Has Core Web Vitals Metrics
Yesterday we saw Google Search Console replace the speed report with a core web vitals report. Now, the PageSpeed Insights report also was updated to show the core web vitals report and data. Any core web vitals metrics show a blue label or badge next…
Google SAMHSA National Hotline Box For Rehab & Addiction Queries
If you search for drug rehab, addiction help and similar queries in Google search, Google in the US will now show you a big box for the SAMHSA National Helpline. This box obviously aims to give help to searchers in need, now. But for those in the bus…
Google Seemed To Have Had More Indexing Issues Last Night
I got a few reports yesterday early evening that Google again was having issues indexing new content. I quickly did some site commands restricted by hour on sites like the Wall Street Journal, CNN and other sites that publish content all the time and G…
Google: Image Search Swipe Up Feature Increases Your Site Traffic
Ten months ago, Google Image Search added a swipe up feature where it loads the web page the image is hosted on. Malte Ubl from Google said yesterday that this feature has proven to be great for site owners. He said it leads better click through rates …
Google: Submitting Search Pages To Google Makes It Crawling & Indexing Harder
Google’s John Mueller said that if you submit all your search pages, i.e. search results, tags, categories (I guess), to Google, it will make “crawling & indexing significantly harder for large sites.” He said this on Twitter the other day, adding “this is where smaller sites can prioritize much better than larger ones can.”
Core Web Vitals Replaced Speed Report In Google Search Console
That was quick, just a couple weeks ago, Google announced the core web vitals on the Chrome blog. Now these metrics have replaced the speed report in Google Search Console. Yep, when you login to Google Search Console, that speed report now says “Cor…